/pub or not /pub

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 21:39:51 UTC 2010


IMHO, if a site claim to be a mirror, they should follow the structure of
the original site. For FreeBSD ftp mirrors, that means /pub/FreeBSD etc.
If they provide a /FreeBSD that one should be a link to /pub/FreeBSD and so
on.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de>wrote:

> It has come to my attention that a lot of FTP mirrors have their
> FreeBSD data under /FreeBSD instead of /pub/FreeBSD.
>
> Which version is recommended and used to create PACKAGESITE from
> PACKAGEROOT?
>
> Regards
>
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mvh
Torfinn


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